“Goooool！”
"Walter Ribéry! A wonderful shot from 83 feet away from the goal and a goal was scored! Score with a wonderful world wave kick! "
"In the 39th minute of the game, Sporting de Gijón leads Deportivo 2-0."
The live broadcast signal of this game was provided to many countries and regions around the world. Super Laco now had many fans around the world. No one had expected that the home team, Deportivo La Coruña, would fall behind by two goals before the first half of the game was over.
As for the Sporting de Gijón fans, even the boldest Sporting de Gijón fans had not expected their team to start the game so smoothly.
In the 39th minute of the game, Sporting de Gijón led Deportivo 2-0 in the away game.
The media and commentators were also in a mess. Many experts had said before the game that La Coruña had the right time, the right place, and the right people, and that the possibility of winning the game was very high. But now, what about now? They fell behind by 2-0 in the first half of the game. The entire Riazo Stadium was filled with boos.
"This is unbelievable! Deportivo's home ground, in the Riazo! Sporting de Gijón leads by 2-0! The whole of Deportivo is in a daze! Their performance was perfect, but they were knocked down by Gijón's two wonderful counterattacks. Ribéry's long shot was wonderful. The most wonderful thing was that Sporting de Gijón's counterattack was speed. From the moment the goalkeeper threw the ball to start the attack, including the goalkeeper, Valencia, to Ribéry, who finished the shot, there were five passes in total! Five people touched the ball! The goal is here! "
As the commentator said, Deportivo was in a daze. The players stood on the field, not knowing what to do, watching the celebrating Sporting de Gijón.
When they fell behind by 1-0, they were angry. They felt that their opponent had stolen their chicken. Their opponent was a thief, a shameless thief! They wanted to teach this thief a lesson.
Now, Deportivo was down 0: 2. The opponent's second counterattack succeeded again. Two counterattacks, two goals. This was a huge blow to Deportivo.
Their morale was greatly affected. They had the absolute initiative and had been besieging their opponents, but they had not achieved any results. On the contrary, their opponents' counterattacks were all accurate. This was simply too demoralizing.
Li Ang high-fived his assistant on the sidelines in celebration. The Sporting de Gijón manager's face was as happy as a flower.
On the field, the Sporting de Gijón players were still celebrating. Their celebration went on for a long time until the referee came up to intervene. They reined in a little and returned to their positions to wait for Deportivo to kick off.
*****
Li Ang sat in the technical area. He was very satisfied that he had scored the second goal during this period.
As long as they held on for the last five or six minutes of the first half, they would be able to enter halftime with a 2-0 lead. For Sporting de Gijón, this was a result worth celebrating!
Deportivo's manager, Irueta, was livid. He did not expect Deportivo to be two goals behind at the end of the first half of the game.
At this moment, although Irueta was very unhappy, he had to admit that the opponent's defensive counterattack was very efficient.
"This is a treacherous opponent," Irueta commented on their opponent.
Throughout the first half of the game, Sporting de Gihon was almost ganged up on. The statistics showed all of this. From the beginning of the first half until now, Deportivo La Coruña had shot as many as fifteen times. Sporting de Gihon only had two shots, and these two shots had turned into two goals!
The game continued. Irueta's face was very ugly, but this experienced manager of La Liga controlled his temper this time. He asked his team to be careful of the opponent's counterattack.
There were still five minutes left in the first half of the game. Deportivo had besieged their opponents for 40 minutes without scoring. Irueta did not have much hope that they could score in these five minutes. If they continued to attack their opponents fiercely, the rear defensive line would be seized by their opponents again. That would be terrible.
Being behind 0-2 at the half of the game was difficult for Deportivo. However, after the halftime adjustment, with Deportivo's strong offensive strength, it was not impossible to reverse the situation. The important thing was that they could not continue to concede goals.
On Li Ang's side, he had originally planned to defend and counterattack. He did not ask his team to press out and attack. Deportivo, under Irueta's instructions, also slowed down their offensive.
Therefore, after Sporting de Gijón took a 2-0 lead, the last few minutes of the first half of the game became relatively dull.
*****
The first half of the game had one minute of injury stoppage time.
At this time, there were still 20 to 30 seconds of injury stoppage time. The referee, Esquerro, was already looking at his watch. He could blow the whistle at the end of the first half of the game at any time.
Deportivo's right midfielder, Victor Sanchez, dribbled the ball. He looked at the situation in Sporting de Gijón's penalty area, which was densely packed with people.
Victor pulled the football horizontally. He thought that he might as well choose to simply take a long shot. The first half of the game was coming to an end. Like the other Deportivo players, Victor had played the first half of the game in frustration and wanted to vent.
Seeing that Victor was about to take a long shot, Marcos dropped Mauro Silva and blocked the long shot with his body, intending to block the long shot. Marcos knew that as long as the long shot was blocked, the whistle at the end of the first half of the game would sound.
Victor's long shot was not weak. Marcos also judged correctly and stretched out his leg to block the football.
However, the situation did not turn out as Marcos had imagined. The football was not directly blocked. Instead, it changed direction and bounced in the exact opposite direction of where the goalkeeper, Valencia, had pounced.
Sporting de Gijón's players had no time to make a defensive move. They could only watch the football fly towards the goal.
Then, under everyone's gaze, the football hit the right post and made a loud bang.
"The column blocked the football!" Sporting de Gijón's commentator shouted in surprise.
*****
Just as Sporting de Gijón's players did not have time to breathe a sigh of relief, the football hit the column and bounced back.
What was unexpected was that after the football bounced back, there was not a single player within a meter of where the football was now!
The penalty area was only so big, but after a refraction and a rebound from the column, the football landed in a place where there was no one. It was really a coincidence.
Then, players from both sides rushed towards the football like crazy. Sporting de Gijón's side naturally wanted to quickly get the football out of the encirclement, while Deportivo's side naturally wanted to complete the rebound shot!
"Walter Pandiani —" Deportivo's commentator roared excitedly.
Following his roar, Deportivo's fans and their manager, Irueta, also jumped out of their seats.
This was an opportunity to score an empty goal. Sporting de Gijón's goalkeeper, Valencia, was still on the ground after he had completed his diving action just now.
*****
Pandiani dashed forward like a leopard. Faced with such a sudden opportunity, the 28-year-old Pandiani's reflexes, impact, and speed overpowered the 36-year-old veteran general Hierro. Hierro was pushed behind by Pandiani.
In the penalty area, the center back was squeezed behind the striker. Everyone knew what was going to happen! Especially when there was such an opportunity to score an empty goal!
"Pandiani pulls back his leg and shoots —!"
"Powerful rebound shot — Goooool!"
"Walter Pandiani!!" All the Deportivo fans at the scene roared loudly.
"The ball is in! Pandiani! He's shot the football into the net! In the injury stoppage time of the first half of the game, Deportivo scored! They were attacking throughout the first half of the game, looking for a goal. Now, their hard work has finally paid off! "
After the goal, Pandiani was so excited that he waved his fists and roared to the sky!
Deportivo's teammates rushed up to hug the excited Pandiani, roaring and shouting with him to vent their frustration throughout the first half.
In the face of such a goal concede, Sporting de Gijón was stunned and frustrated.
In addition, the goal concede was so strange. One refraction, one rebound from the goalpost, and then the opponent scored an empty goal.
Deportivo had been attacking fiercely for 45 minutes and had not been able to really threaten Sporting de Gijón's goal. In the last ten seconds or so, their luck was out of this world. It was really something that could not be explained. This made the Sporting Gijón players very depressed. They also experienced the depressed feelings of the Deportivo La Coruña players.
*****
Deportivo's manager, Irueta, rushed out of the technical area and waved his fists excitedly to celebrate the goal.
In the stands, countless Deportivo La Coruña fans also waved their fists, shouted, and hugged each other. They had been sullen for half of the game. Now, with this goal, they could finally vent some of their frustrations and grievances.
In the technical area of the away team, Li Ang had been sitting steadily in his seat. He had been thinking about how to play the second half of the game with a 2-0 lead. But now, Li Ang stood up and looked at the field in a daze. The arrangements he had just thought about for the second half of the game were all in vain in this second.
A 2-0 lead was completely different from a 2-1 lead. He now had to reconsider the arrangements for the second half of the game.
It was really too depressing.
Li Ang scratched his head unhappily, then shook his head helplessly and said, "Deportivo's luck is so damn good."
Refraction, rebound from the goalpost, and finally a shot into the net. This was not good luck. What was good luck? Li Ang felt that Deportivo's luck was really good in the last ten seconds.
Of course, Deportivo would not think so. They would think that this was compensation for the effort they had put in throughout the first half of the game.
While the Deportivo players were celebrating their goal, the referee on duty, Esquerro, blew the whistle to signal the end of the first half of the match: the home team, Deportivo La Coruña, was behind the away team, Sporting Gijon 1: 2!
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